Witness History
Un podcast de BBC World Service
1511 Épisodes
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Subway Art: The graffiti bible
Publié: 01/07/2024 -
I designed Hello Kitty
Publié: 29/06/2024 -
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
Publié: 27/06/2024 -
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
Publié: 26/06/2024 -
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
Publié: 25/06/2024 -
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Publié: 24/06/2024 -
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
Publié: 21/06/2024 -
The first mega cruise ship
Publié: 20/06/2024 -
The beginning of Benidorm
Publié: 19/06/2024 -
How Cancún became a tourist destination
Publié: 18/06/2024 -
The first budget transatlantic flights
Publié: 17/06/2024 -
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
Publié: 14/06/2024 -
Kielland disaster
Publié: 13/06/2024 -
The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
Publié: 12/06/2024 -
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
Publié: 11/06/2024 -
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
Publié: 10/06/2024 -
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Publié: 07/06/2024 -
Saving lives on D-Day
Publié: 06/06/2024 -
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Publié: 05/06/2024 -
Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
Publié: 04/06/2024
Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest, the disastrous D-Day rehearsal, and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.
